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OAS accession Detail for 0159152
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| Title: | National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected for Climate Stations across the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2015-01-26 to 2015-04-27 (NCEI Accession 0159152) |
| Abstract: | The data described here result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted along transects at climate stations and permanent sites identified by the Ocean and Climate Change team across the Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014. Benthic habitat imagery were quantitatively analyzed using Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe; Kohler and Gill, 2006) software from 2010-2014 and a web-based annotation tool called CoralNet (Beijbom et al. 2016) from 2015 to present. In general, images are analyzed to produce three functional group levels of benthic cover: Tier 1 (e.g., hard coral, soft coral, macroalgae, turf algae, etc.), Tier 2 (e.g., Hard Coral = massive, branching, foliose, encrusting, etc.; Macroalgae = upright macroalgae, encrusting macroalgae, bluegreen macroalgae, and Halimeda, etc.), and Tier 3 (e.g., Hard Coral = Astreopora sp, Favia sp, Pocillopora, etc.; Macroalgae = Caulerpa sp, Dictyosphaeria sp, Padina sp, etc.). Climate stations are 3-4 sites per island that were selected in a stratified random fashion to be roughly equally spaced around the island, along the 15 m contour, on hard bottom, and at least 1 km away from a river mouth or embayment. Once selected we assess multiple features of the coral reef environment including in-situ temperature (STR), seawater carbonate, net carbonate accretion (CAU), bioerosion (BMU), and cryptobiota diversity (ARMS). |
| Date received: | 20161230 |
| Start date: | 20150126 |
| End date: | 20150427 |
| Seanames: | North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -176.624 |
| East boundary: | -159.979 |
| North boundary: | 16.7634 |
| South boundary: | -0.38234 |
| Observation types: | laboratory analyses |
| Instrument types: | |
| Datatypes: | REEF AND/OR BOTTOM REGIME - PERCENT COVER |
| Submitter: | Kanemura, Troy |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division; Coral Reef Ecosystem Program |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division; Coral Reef Ecosystem Program |
| Contributing projects: | CORAL REEF STUDIES, CRCP, NCRMP, Pacific RAMP |
| Platforms: | Hi'ialakai (33HL) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Submission Package ID: EB9BB6 |
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| Metadata version: | 7 |
| Keydate: | 2017-01-17 14:06:36+00 |
| Editdate: | 2017-01-31 13:13:38+00 |